Homegrown Video is like the tao, when it is lowly it is at its peak
 

Cool, thanks!

More Lao Tzu...

?Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.?

I think it's time to take a step back and look to old school. Although 90% of my banks haven't had issues, it's clear the 'offshore' banks are double dealing and Visa is pounding them hard for it. Quite frankly they (the bank's) should and DO know better, they're just straight up greedy.

anyhooo, having said that, there are still some very solid solutions available (and will continue to be available) outside the current & forcasted storms.

just my years of dealing with international banks speaking : )

Hope and change.

:(

homegrown video, sex is food people have to eat
 

Lao Tzu just tends to have the best stuff for these occassions... "As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again"

As of today, that is going to become a Homegrown Video company mantra, along with "sex is food, people have to eat" which I came up with on my own.

To follow that food analogy, look at grocers, which used to be largely mom and pop establishments but that has long ago given way to large controlling brand conscious supermarkets... and small niche specialty shops. If any of you think making a living on the margins left in adult is difficult you should look at how slim the margins are in the grocery business.

I stopped reading here. You are wrong. Could not be more wrong.

http://www.gofuckyourself.com/image....ine=1284052100 kissing booth franchise :pimp :1orglaugh

lots less sponsors. easier to notice.

:2 cents:

affiliate pool is shrinking like mad too.

lol what a depressing thread ..... makes me laugh but sad at same time <sigh>

I think this year will clearly show who is surviving paycheck to paycheck and who has retained earnings that can absorb some large hits like we've been seeing. Good luck to all our survival!
WG

I saw that vid in your sig the other day, I'm still laughing my ass off. i revisit it regularly for more... :!orglaugh

Got 3/4 taken care of ;)
WG

Well, because of everything YOU believe you are doing 2 signups a day. Maybe it's time to start listening to other people.

Originally Posted by JP-pornshooter View Post
well here is a reality check..
the general economy and business has improved over last year and is improving as we speak.i happen to have a finger in the global economy, not that i can change anything but believe me, the economy is rebounding. soon the price of oil will start increasing..

TBH, we just got back to our peak which was the end of 08 and things are picking up even past that. This month should be our best ever and it's a 30 day month. The graph looks good. I'm excited and am eager for 2011
Duke

yea thats odd. I'm with you there
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I would love to see what the results of these kind of threads would be for other industries.
And I Wouldn't mind putting money on the fact that almost every business in the world is shitting itself right now.

The world has never seen such a big rise in the economy and such a big fall in this small space of time.

I would say we are going through a period of calm and things will gradually continue upwards afterwards. Stay put and be reserved.

That's a good thing.
ds

Traffic is god.

I think the hurricanes start early look this incredible http://www.gfy.com/fucking-around-and-business-discussion/986560-aw-fuck-runnin-godaddy-sale.html

been reading this shit for the last 7 years

lol you mean there are people out there who aren't living paycheck to paycheck ? :winkwink:

As long as porn is free its going to keep spiraling its just that simple.
the new generation of surfers know exactly where and how to get it free. now even old timers get it free just by googling.

just ask anyone one you know why they dont pay for porn. not one will say cross sales, economy etc. they will all say why its free.

it is the only problem:2 cents:

people still by alcohol, crack and cigs etc. because they cant get it free and the prices are going up not dropping

You were one of those guys that his model was right in your face on a daily basis. No one had the balls, common sense, or intelligence to duplicate it for a very long time.

One man was producing more bandwidth and traffic than most of the adult players.

Hats off to you...

As long as women are stuck in this evolutionary tail spin, and only have 3 orifices suitable for penetration, we will keep spiraling.

Blame it entirely on the free porn all you want... I attribute a lot of it to over saturation. It is not new anymore and people have been so desensitized to porn that nothing is new... Same three holes.

To blame it on free porn is like saying that hair bands from the 90's died because of easy duplication of cassette tapes. That Grunge died because of Napster. Over saturation and people's ability to watch/listen to the same shit over and over fades after seeing/hearing it for 10 years straight.

alcohol isnt oversaturated and same with legal drugs etc? yet they are all growing strong.

bring back the taboo and cut off the free supply then watch conversions get better.

but it might be to late just way to much free porn.

Glad I changed my business model :2 cents:

if I was a huge tube owner I would continue to blast free porn till most programs went under then tighten the faucet and convert them in-house.

whats that suppose to mean?

I have never given more thought to going full mainstream more than I am right now.

i would have never made that far with out you sir. hats off vice versa.

Why traffic isn't the answer.

The traffic theory has never worked except when it was supported by millions of new surfers coming online. This is proven in your stats, while traffic increased ratios dropped. Today there is no big increase in new traffic. So now we have a double whammy, traffic dropping or leveling off and ratios worsening.

There is very little new traffic of any value. A lot of the new traffic heads straight to Tube sites and other free sites.

The amount of new traffic available is small, the major Tubes will take the lions share. What's left is even less.

If one person increases his traffic, it works great, if 100 do it it's nice. If 1,000 or more try it they're treading water while ratios worsen. Because if "A" increases his traffic "B" looses it. If "A to Z" increase their traffic no one is better off. (Numbers to illustrate the point.)

The only way this industry knows how to get more traffic is to put out more free content.

So we now rely on a seasoned buyer for our income. He's the guy putting money on the table, NO ONE else brings money to this industry. He's the guy we need to worry about and find ways to bring him back to buying. Spending more money, time and resources on getting more traffic is not working.

This thread illustrates the business sense in this business. http://www.gofuckyourself.com/showthread.php?t=922293
Only one year ago all the bros were praising this guy for putting out a new Tube site. The fact it was license content or not, is immaterial to this industries bottom line. It was still taking buyers away from buying. Now some of the bros are eating their words.

Traffic isn't God. $$$$ are what matters and traffic is merely one tool to get it. When it's worshiped as a God it harms the industry. Because getting traffic too often leads to giving buyers less reasons to buy.

Partly I agree with you. But this has always been the case. One pussy looked very much like the next when I was shooting back in the 70s, 80s and 90s. Today they look a bit different, less hair. LOL

The success we had then was largely based on the lack of supply (saturation). Today anyone can open a site and point a camera. Not that pointing a camera was hard 20 years ago, getting the exposure and focus right was not hard either. What sunk most people who tried was they really didn't have a clue what they were shooting. Today they put up a website or sell to a website.

What is needed in innovation, imagination and creativity when shooting porn in a saturated market. Tough to do that when sponsors think $500 for a solo girl scene is too much money. And the shooter and model should do 5 scenes in a day to make a living. Same goes for GG and BG. A similar attitude applies to a lot of people shooting for their own sites.

Today we mostly produce bland filler content and the buyers ain't buying it.

need traffic to get $$$ . no traffic no $$$ period. Rethink your logic.

I use epass for a reason. With my current schedule, if I was issued a check, I wouldn't be able to cash it until early November... I'd rather wait and see how epass pans out :2 cents:

So I hear you have wires at about $10 per wire, yes? Why didn't you say so before!

Like Shap said. This year resulted in more money being stollen than all my online career combined.

And as far as all the people with a crystal ball in their hand I have to say, sssshure. In 2010 money won't go anywhere. It will be there. Pick it up.

Since this is only my 2nd year as a Program Owner/Paysite Operater I can honestly say it's all been up, up, up for PeabodyCash. Of course, going from 0 to X isn't hard. LOL MAINTAINING the sales, now there's the challenge in today's world.

Where do I say you don't need traffic?

My statement showed the logic of thinking traffic is the answer, nothing about ignoring it completely. What is needed is sign ups, if the only way we have of getting more sign ups is getting more traffic then we as an industry are screwed. Because there is not much new traffic of value to be found.

No content no $$$$$ period. Turning your logic around. :winkwink:

Even a text link needs to send traffic to a site with content to get a sign up. Text is still content, so it includes sites selling nothing but stories. :winkwink:

yeah, it's the same since 2001

there is still more than enough fresh traffc that converts out there

Which is why everyone is doing great. :Oh crap

100% agree and I personally follow it